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Batrachoseps
''Batrachoseps'' is a genus of lungless salamanders (plethodontids) often called slender salamanders. They can be distinguished from other lungless salamanders by the four toes they have on each foot. Their genus name ''Batracho-seps'' means "frog-lizard", in reference to their projectile tongues. Diet and physiology The lungless salamanders, in addition to having no lungs, have long slender snake-shaped bodies with very small limbs that appear almost vestigial in several species. Their main diet consists of small insects, such as springtails, small bark beetles, crickets, young snails, mites, and spiders. Like all salamanders in this family, they have long frog-like projectile tongues which they use to grab their prey in a flash. Unlike all other amphibians (and birds, and lizards, and nearly all fish) mature red blood cells in species in the genus ''Batrachoseps'' have no nucleus, which is a trait that is known to occur only in mammals and certain species of antarctic fish. ...
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Batrachoseps Campi
The Inyo Mountains salamander (''Batrachoseps campi'') or Inyo slender salamander is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae that is endemic to the Inyo Mountains of California in the western United States. Description ''Batrachoseps campi'' is one of the largest slender salamanders, a genus otherwise mainly made up of very small species, and can grow to over 6 cm in length. It has a relatively broad head, and is colored brown with numerous gray speckles. These speckles often cover most of the salamander, making it appear silvery-gray. Like all ''Batrachoseps'' salamanders, it has only four toes on its hind feet. It has no dorsal stripe, a trait shared within ''Batrachoseps'' only with '' Batrachoseps gabrieli''.Jockusch, Elizabeth L. "Batrachoseps campi." ''Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (CAAR)'' (2001). Distribution and habitat ''Batrachoseps campi'' is endemic to the Inyo Mountains and limited to 20 known localities, located in Inyo County in ...
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Garden Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps Major)
The Garden slender salamander (''Batrachoseps major'') or Southern California slender salamander is a species of salamander in the family Lungless salamander, Plethodontidae. It is Endemism, endemic to northern Baja California in Mexico and Southern California in the United States. Description While ''Batrachoseps major'' is a small salamander, it is larger than most other ''Batrachoseps'' slender salamanders. Adults are in length and have 17-21 costal grooves. Like other ''Batrachoseps'', ''B. major'' has only four toes on its hind feet. Color is variable, but individuals are usually some form of gray. A key identification feature is the color of the underside, which is pale for ''B. major''. This is the simplest method to distinguish ''B. major'' from the similar ''B. nigriventris'' where the two co-occur, although the latter is typically also much smaller and less robust. Taxonomy There are currently two described subspecies of ''Batrachoseps major:'' * ''Batrachoseps ...
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Batrachoseps Attenuatus
The California slender salamander (''Batrachoseps attenuatus'') is a lungless salamander Stebbins, Robert C. (2003). ''A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians'', 3rd Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, that is found primarily in coastal mountain areas of Northern California, United States as well as in a limited part of the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, California, in patches of the northern Central Valley of California, and in extreme southwestern Oregon. This species resides primarily in a limited range within California as one of a handful quasi-endemic amphibians in the state. In 2001 Elizabeth L. Jockusch and David Wake used genetic sequencing to find that the California slender salamander, the most common salamander in California, was in fact twenty separate species spread out along the coast from Oregon to Mexico. Presently, the California slender salamander is viewed as one of the nineteen species of the genus ''Batrachoseps'', each of which is chara ...
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Batrachoseps Gregarius
The gregarious slender salamander (''Batrachoseps gregarius'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. Its natural habitats are California interior chaparral and woodlands and temperate grasslands in the lower foothills of the western Sierra Nevada and the eastern Central Valley in California, United States. Description The gregarious slender salamander is a small, slender species with a narrow head, short limbs, small hands and feet and a long tail that tapers near the tip. It has a brown dorsal band of colour, blackish back and sides dotted with white specks grading to a pale grey ventral region. The dorsal band starts at a golden-brown to tan region on the neck and extends along the spine as far as the tail. It varies in colour in different individuals from light brown, with dark flecks and bright highlights, to a much darker colour. The maximum snout-to-vent length of an adult is less than . Distribution and habitat The gregarious slender salamander is endem ...
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Batrachoseps Gavilanensis
The Gabilan Mountains slender salamander (''Batrachoseps gavilanensis'') is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to California in the United States, where it is distributed along the Central Coast region from Santa Cruz to northern Kern County.NatureServe. 2015''Batrachoseps gavilanensis''.NatureServe Explorer. Version 7.1. Accessed 19 June 2016. This salamander lives in redwood and evergreen forests, chaparral, and California oak woodland habitat. It burrows in soil and forest litter. This species is up to 16.5 centimeters long, including its long tail. It is gray with brown and black washes, white speckling along the sides, and usually a brownish dorsal stripe bordered with black dots.Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander (''Batrachoseps gavi ...
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Batrachoseps Gabrieli
The San Gabriel slender salamander (''Batrachoseps gabrieli'') is a species of salamander. It has a worm-like body, a large head and large limbs, and an elongate cylindrical tail of less than 1.5 times its body length. An adult salamander is between 3 and 5 cm long. It has a black dorsum with white, coppery, and orange blotches, and an immaculate black venter. It may have red spots on tail. ''B. gabrieli'' is similar to the related species '' B. pacificus'' and '' B. nigriventis''. This species is only known from the San Gabriel Canyon system, and typically lives above 1,000 meters in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County. References * This article is based on a description from "A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California", Robert N. Fisher and Ted J. Case, USGS, http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fieldguide/index.htm. {{Taxonbar, from=Q2109672 Slender salamanders Salamander Salamander Salamanders are a group of amphibians typical ...
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